Polyaspartic installation process
Nine steps, start to finish, on one crew visit. Most of them happen before a drop of coating touches your slab, and that is exactly why our floors do not peel. Here is every one of them, in the order our crew does it.
No home visit. No sales appointment. No pressure.
Before you read the whole thing
A standard two or three car garage is done in a single day. Polyaspartic cures in hours, not days, so we do not have to come back tomorrow to finish.
If you can open the garage door for us remotely, you do not have to be home. We never come inside the house. Most people stop out once or twice to watch, and you are welcome to.
Walk on it the next morning and start moving things back in. Cars go back in after 48 hours. Your crew lead gives you the exact times for your floor before they leave.
Install day
Almost every failed garage floor you have ever seen failed at the concrete, not at the coating. So that is where most of our day goes.
Before anything else the crew reads your slab. Where the cracks run, whether moisture is coming up through the concrete, and whether somebody already put a coating down that has to come off first.
This is also where surprises would normally turn into a change order. They do not here. The price you were quoted online is the price on the invoice, and crack repair is already inside it.
We run diamond grinders across the entire floor and take the slab down to clean, open concrete. Old paint, old epoxy, sealer, oil staining, the slick troweled skin on top of the concrete. All of it comes off.
Grinding is what gives the coating something to physically bite into. It is dusty, slow, and it is the most important thing that happens all day.
With the floor ground open we can finally see every crack, pit, spall and chip for what it is. Each one gets filled and bonded so the finished surface is continuous instead of bridging over a void that will telegraph through later.
Crack repair is included in your quoted price. It is not an upcharge we discover on the day.
Repairs sit slightly proud of the slab once they set. So we grind a second time, just over the patched areas, until you cannot feel the difference with your hand.
Skip this and every repair shows up as a raised shadow through the finished floor.
Now the coating starts. The pigmented base coat goes down across the whole floor and soaks into the concrete we just opened up.
Our base coat is polyaspartic, not epoxy and not polyurea. That is the layer actually bonded to your slab, and it is where most of the industry saves money. A polyaspartic base stays flexible, so it moves with a Texas or Oklahoma slab instead of cracking underneath the top coat.
While the base coat is still wet, the crew broadcasts your color flake by hand across the entire floor at full coverage, thrown to refusal: the point where the surface will not take another flake.
That full broadcast is what gives you the texture underfoot, the slip resistance, and a surface that hides scuffs instead of showing every mark. The flake is also where your floor gets its color. You pick that up front, from our eight garage floor colors.
Once the flake has set, the loose material on top gets scraped back off and the floor is vacuumed clean. What is left is only the flake actually locked into the base coat.
Scraping is what turns a rough flake bed into the even, consistent texture you feel when you walk on a finished floor.
The clear top coat goes on last and seals the flake in. This is the layer you will actually stand on, drive on, and spill things on for the life of the floor.
It is UV stable, so the section by your garage door will not yellow the way epoxy does. It resists hot tire pickup, chemicals and road salt, so oil and de-icer wipe off instead of staining.
The crew cleans up the garage and the driveway, hauls their own debris out, and walks the finished floor with you.
Before they leave you get the exact cure times for your floor, how to clean it, and what the lifetime warranty covers. Then the garage is yours again.
That is the whole day. Your price for it takes about a minute, with no home visit and no sales appointment.
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Same nine steps, compressed into a couple of minutes.
The shortcuts
Every one of these makes a floor cheaper to install and shortens how long it lasts. If you are comparing quotes, these are the questions worth asking.
Acid washing is faster and far cheaper than running grinders, and it leaves the slab nowhere near as open. We grind mechanically on every single floor.
We do not install epoxy or polyurea, in any layer. Base coat and top coat are both polyaspartic, so the layer touching your concrete is the flexible one.
A partial flake broadcast uses a fraction of the material and looks fine on install day. It shows every scuff a year later. We broadcast to refusal.
The people in your garage are our own employees, trained on our system. Not a crew hired for the week, not a subcontractor passing through.
Your part
That is the entire list. Everything else is ours, including sweeping the floor.
After we leave
Polyaspartic cures in hours rather than days, which is the whole reason this is one visit and not three. Walk on it the next morning and start moving in. Cars go back after 48 hours. Your crew lead confirms the exact times for your floor before they go, since temperature and humidity move them.
The crew finishes, cleans up and leaves. Keep pets and kids off the floor for the rest of the day.
Foot traffic is fine. Move the shelving and the light items back in.
Drive the cars back in. Hot tire pickup is not a concern with polyaspartic once it is cured.
Soap and water. No waxing, no resealing, no annual maintenance contract.
The promise
A full polyaspartic system over diamond ground concrete, installed by our own employees. No subcontractors, no thinned material, no shortcuts on prep.
We cut the commissioned sales visit out of the model and put the savings in the floor. Find the same system priced lower and we will match it. See the price match guarantee.
For as long as you own and live in the home, the coating is covered. If it peels or delaminates we come back and make it right. Read the warranty.
Install day questions
A standard two or three car garage is one crew visit. Larger floors, heavy old coating removal, or a slab that needs a lot of repair can add time, and if that applies to your garage we tell you before install day rather than on it.
No, and you do not have to be home at all. As long as you can open the garage door for us remotely, the crew can work without you there. Everything happens in the garage and on the driveway. We never need to come inside the house. If you would rather be around, or want to drop in part way through and see how it is going, you are welcome to.
Our grinders run with vacuum dust extraction, so the concrete dust is captured at the tool instead of drifting through the garage. It is a working jobsite for a few hours, but it is not the dust storm people expect.
It comes off during grinding. That is one of the things step two is for. Removing an old coating can add time to the day, so tell us about it when you get your quote and we will plan for it.
We repair it, at no extra charge. Crack repair is included in the quoted price, and your online quote is the final price. There is no day-of change order.
Yes. Polyaspartic cures in a much wider temperature range than epoxy, which is one of the practical reasons we use it. The garage door does need to be open for airflow during application, so genuinely severe weather can move a date.
You can walk on the floor the next morning and start moving the shelving and light items back in. Cars go back in after 48 hours. Your crew lead gives you the exact numbers for your install before they leave, because temperature and humidity shift them.
Four layers: diamond ground concrete, a pigmented polyaspartic base coat, a full decorative flake broadcast, and a clear polyaspartic top coat. The full polyaspartic system is broken down here, layer by layer.
For as long as you own and live in the home, the coating is covered against peeling and delamination. If it fails we come back and fix it. The full warranty terms are here.
About a minute, no home visit, and the price you see is the price you pay.
